Hi everyone, this is my first post to this list, so please bear with me. I'm trying to get a Kickstart installation running for a RedHat 9 system. Here are the system detail:
Intel Pentium - 133Mhz
32MB RAM
1.2GB Hard Disk
I'm using the following Kickstart file:
[ks.cfg]
# Kickstart file
# Inform Kickstart that this will be an install, not an upgrade
install
# Set the installation files location
url --url http://172.25.0.27/RedHat
# Set the language
lang en_US.UTF-8
langsupport --default en_CA.UTF-8 en_CA.UTF-8 en_US.UTF-8
# Set the keyboard type
keyboard us
# Disable the mouse
mouse none
# Disable X-Windows
skipx
# Run Kickstart in text mode
text
# Setup the network devices
network --device eth0 --bootproto dhcp
network --device eth1 --bootproto dhcp
# Set the root password
rootpw --iscrypted ********************************** (removed for security reasons)
# Disable the firewall (for now)
firewall --disabled
# Enable the shadow passwd
authconfig --enableshadow --enablemd5
# Set the timezone
timezone America/Regina
# Set the GRUB location
bootloader --location=mbr
# Set partition information
clearpart --all --drives=hda
part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=100 -->
part / --fstype ext3 --size=700 --grow -->
part swap --recommended -->
# Reboot at the end of the install
reboot
%packages
%post
I'm using the standard RedHat 9 setup floppies, and I've added the ks.cfg file to the 1st floppy. I initiate the Kickstart install by typing "linux ks=floppy dd" at the "boot:" prompt when I boot with the first disk.
As you can probably see from the Kickstart file, and the system specs I'm doing a "bare-bones" text based Kickstart installation with not many packages being installed. My issue is that my installation seems to be hanging at the "Reading package information..." text dialog. The system is getting onto the network, getting a DHCP address, and its loading the net base images from the HTTP server I've specified. So the network is working fine. And I've used the same HTTP server manually and have successfully installed the same system. I suspect my problem is that because I have only 32MB of RAM that anaconda needs to enable swap in order to parse the package information properly, but at the point of package reading anaconda has done the disk partitioning but hasn't activated swap. I've check the other VT's and there doesn't seem to be any errors.
Has anyone else ran into this issue, or am I doing something blatantly wrong?
Any help or comments are greatly appretiated.
FYI, the system is going to be used as a router, that's why the system specs are so small. :-)
Jason...
